Ezekiel 16:3
And say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
Context
This verse from Ezekiel Chapter 16 connects to 10 cross-references. The extended allegory of the unfaithful wife: Jerusalem is like an abandoned infant rescued, raised to beauty, and betrothed by God, who then prostituted herself to every nation worse than Samaria or Sodom. Yet God will remember the covenant made …
Other Translations
and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was thy father, and thy mother was a Hittite.
Thus said the Lord Jehovah to Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy nativity <FI>Are<Fi> of the land of the Canaanite, Thy father the Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite.
And say, This is what the Lord has said to Jerusalem: Your start and your birth was from the land of the Canaanite; an Amorite was your father and your mother was a Hittite.
Cross References
And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, …
But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast …
But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and …
Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your …
And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the Lord cast …
Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which …
Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and …
Thou art the Lord the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, …